I'm a HUGE fan of Marauder Gun-Runners store of accessories and gear for all things 1:18 scale/3.75". They've created some cool sci-fi and clearly Star Wars-rooted weaponry in the past, and they're taking their line of accessories a step further by introducing a new system of stands for 3.75" Action Figures.

Just a little synopsis real fast, they do all injection-molded plastic accessories on their site, so you're getting a pretty high quality and durable item when you order. Their guns often feature movable parts like stocks, removable clips, bipods, etc. The detail is pretty insane too with some of the weapons, which feature removable grips, lights, secondary weapons, and ammo clips. That's serious detailing in this scale!

This post is largely to promote their new Interlocking Display System (I.D.S.) of stands though, and eventual future products.

Marauder Gun-Runners recently sent me a set of their I.D.S. to review and get a feel for how the system works, and what benefits or drawbacks it has, and then share that with our readers here at Jedi Defender. (Clicky Images to Read Review!)

Overall, color me impressed! I found the system pretty versatile and actually was most impressed by how it made moving large groups of figures easier. The semi-glossy black surface is ideal for Starship or Death Star-ish looking hallway floors too. More colors may be coming, but I'm not sure on that. The stands are easily customized though if you wanted unique bases for your figures.

I'm hoping to pick up a couple more sets soon as these work well for my vintage Star Wars and I'm about to get my loose figure collection set up into a new shelf I built, so it's the ideal time to crack and buy some stands!

Thanks for reading, and share your thoughts on the I.D.S. stands if you'd like!

Those stands look really interesting. I like the fact that you can get so many figures in such a small area. Even if you aren't looking to display everything as a unit in formation, it would be fine for a normal display of all your BDs or Troopers, even the Jedi or pilots.

The price isn't bad but that initial investment would always be big if you're looking to replace all existing stands. I think if picked any of these up I'd look to buy them for my Trooper sqads only and then use the stands I already have for the rest.

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I might look into those, as I was digging the review posted on the front page. I've never used stands in the past, but I have so much stuff displayed now that it's time for me to start looking into them. I might wait for a sale or see if they offer a bulk discount for those stands, because I need a lot of them.

Marauder's doesn't do many sales I've ever seen as they're a small company, but they DO do bulk discounts on stuff. I'm not sure on the stands, but you can always contact them and ask. My sample was a larger set, but it was a sample so I can't say for sure if it's available.

Jesse hooked me up with a promo pack of these stands and I got around to playing with them tonight and they're really pretty cool. Obviously they work fine as basic stands but where they take it up a notch is the size and the ability to fit them together. Like he showed in his review, they work well for displaying squads and whatnot, but I thought the cool part of them is that they fit together tightly enough that you can do other things with them you can't do with most stands.

I put one up on end with a Clone in "flight" and it worked really well.

They fit okay on most of the Star Wars and Joe figures I had handy as well as the Hasbro Gambit figure. The foot pegs are long, which is fine, but most of the figs I had have shallow foot pegs so a couple didn't fit, like an Indy figure and one Joe I tried. I blame that on the figures, not the stands. I also tried an Avatar figure (hole was too small) and a Mezco Hellboy figure (foot hole too big for the small peg, too small for the other) which didn't work. I'm sure I have other figs around that would fit, though.

Over all, I really dig these stands. As I said in my first post, I'll probably use these mostly for troop displays but that's just the way I have things set up for now. I see on Marauder's site they have the clear stands available as well. I like the black but the clear look like they'd be good for some displays.

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I ordered a set of 100 clear stands from them this weekend - I'll let everyone know what I think about them after I've had some time to get some of my figures from perpetually falling over.

I'm looking forward to using two stands together to achieve those same "in flight" poses that E demonstrated with Denal a few posts back - Marauder should give you a commission E, it's your pic of Denal that sold me on buying their stands.

I also ordered four of the gray katana swords for my Snow Samurai Troopers (the Joe Johnston Concept Snowtroopers). I think seeing one of them wielding a sword would look pretty cool.

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I've already gone through 60 of my 100 stands, so needless to say, I'm probably going to order more.

I've been mostly using the stands on the Clone Wars figures and with the exception of Luminara and the spy droid from the monestary (can't remember it's name) the stands all work great. Some figures don't plug onto the stand fully, but most do.

I put together a similar display to what E did below for Denal.

The Katana swords work well with the Joe Johnston Concept Snowtroopers, so I'm glad I picked them up as well.

I would definitely order from them again - in fact, I'm probably going to submit another order before the week is out for another 100 stands...

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Glad you like the stands. I think they're really handy and while I haven't taken the time to go through my display and replace my older stands, I've had figures on my computer desk using them since I got them.

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Let them know you came from Jedi Defender if that's ok, just for promotional purposes, and while you're there I would suggest:

-MG-34's... They're fantastic for your sandtroopers and stormtroopers, and they're made of a nice sturdy plastic. I'm hopeful they'll maybe someday make folded bi-pods too, so you can have the bi-pods not unfolded as they are now. I just take them off though.

-Blastech E-11 Stormtrooper rifles... They have a flip-out stock and trigger guards, and look great.

-Han's Blaster Pistol... Very detailed, removable scope piece too.

-Mini-Gun... This thing is amazing!!! Multi-part (I recommend gluing it together when you get it but it holds together fairly well too on its own), and easily replaces the CLone mini-gun.

And this may be just me but I pick up fun extras like briefcases for Scanner techs and senator-ish figures to carry, and I nabbed some attachments to weapons like the foreward grip and things, because if you're careful with hobby drillbits, you can make some neat attachments to SW weaponry you have extras of like Clone rifles and things. They look very special-ops-ish.

Glad you liked the stands. I need another big bulk order actually.

Oh! And I filed the pegs down some on the stands to accomodate figures with more shallow pegholes as well. I've had to do that with all the stands I had leading up to these new ones from Marauder. I'm ditching all my old stands now though for these. It's cool you liked them too!

I'll try to snap a few pictures of my "Samurai" Snowtrooper Squad and post them here tomorrow or Sunday.

I basically burned through the entire order of 100 stands setting up all of my Clone Wars loose collection in one of my display cabinets. I actually still have lots of clones and droids that don't have stands.

I'm going to make an order for another 200 stands and I was looking at some of the weapons you suggested Jesse and I think I'm going to add some of them to my order.

I will definitely mention that I was directed to them through the boards here.

They are really great to deal with - they even threw in some extra weapons - a scimitar and a sub-machine gun - I'm going to use them to add variety to my Indy line Cairo thugs and German soldiers...

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